🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Patrimonium - Preserving Local Heritage
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
2-10 September 2026 | Oliveira do Douro, Cinfães, Portugal
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Training for 30 youth workers in Cinfães, Portugal, on local heritage preservation. Learn to engage youth through non-formal education and digital tools to protect culture and foster active citizenship in rural areas.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Join us for a week in the rural area of Portugal (in Cinfães) to learn and discuss about local heritage.
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The objectives for the training course under the "Patrimonium - Preserving Local Heritage" project focus on empowering youth workers and fostering active youth participation in cultural preservation
Youth Engagement: To promote the active participation of young people in cultural preservation projects, ensuring they feel like an integral and essential part of these initiatives.
Youth Worker Capacity Building: To provide youth workers with the essential skills needed to integrate local and European cultural heritage into their daily activities, thereby enhancing youth engagement.
Adaptation of Digital Tools: To innovate in the field of heritage preservation by exploring and adapting existing digital tools, creating a more dynamic, modern, and accessible approach for younger generations.
To promote transnational cooperation and the exchange of experiences, best practices, and knowledge among youth workers from different countries to build a mutual support and learning network.
Use of Non-Formal Education: To facilitate youth participation in cultural preservation initiatives through non-formal education methods, aiming to increase social inclusion and active involvement in cultural communities.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 30 participants
from Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Youth researchers
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Casa d'Abóbora (Youth NGO)
Casa d'Abóbora is a youth association that born in Aldeia (Cinfães, Viseu), a village with only 30 population but since there we have opened our target group to all the area of Cinfães (around 17.000 inhabitants).
Our 2 main objectives are: The preservation and promotion of the local cultural heritage, and the Cultural dinamization of Cinfães. All of this with focus in the sustainability.
The main activities of the association are: Workshops on local heritage, educational activities, walks, concerts, intergenerational community development, among others.
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Joana Faria
E-Mail:
Phone: +351915814790
💶 Costs
Participation fee
No participation fee
Accommodation and food
All funded by EU
Travel reimbursement
All the info in the infopack.
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/15122
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 19 July 2026
Date of selection: 2 August 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
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